Random radio jottings

On a BBC Radio 4 Extra all request weekend in August they unearthed an edition of Petticoat Line , the first time one had been broadcast in ...

This Sunday commercial radio will mark its 50 th anniversary on the day that LBC launched in London, with Capital Radio coming along eight ...

  This week the UK’s oldest listings magazine celebrates its centenary. The Radio Times –‘the official organ of the BBC’ – hit the newssta...

The Radio Times was “launched in a fit of pique”. So says Joe Moran writing for the listing magazine’s 90 th anniversary edition. This wee...

  Fifty years ago the UK had joined the EEC, the IRA was bombing London, a Cod War with raging with Iceland and mortgage rates were running ...

There are, by my reckoning, eight BBC radio programmes that started in the 1940s that are still on air (see note 1). The second oldest of th...